Costumes

Camel

Image- Thomas Russell

Image- Thomas Russell

Image- Thomas Russell

Camel– choreographed and designed by Geoffrey Watson for Next Wave Festival 2016. Camel is a dance work which fuses design, text, music performance and dance into choreographic process. Drawing inspiration from the legend of the camel as an animal designed by God from the spare parts of other animals as a metaphor for the creative drive.

Harvest was choreographed by Geoffrey Watson in response to an invitation to perform with Melbourne based band Habits. In the original version, the costumes are torn apart by members of the audience. These photos are from a video documentation that was undertaken later.

Costumes designed for MONA’s Dark Mofo Festival 2015 event Blacklist. 14 individual costumes were made using a method of draping large, randomly cut pattern pieces together. These pieces were then assembled using clips, so that they can be disassembled and recombined within the performance.

Zephyr was a choreographic collaboration between Geoffrey Watson, Harrison Hall and singer Benny Dimas. Presented at Short and Sweet Festival Melbourne 2013. Costumes partially constructed from plastic lunch bags- very delicate plastic which shredded and disintegrated through the course of the performance